The Datça Peninsula , also known as the Reşadiye Peninsula , is an 80 km-long, narrow peninsula in southwest Turkey separating the Gulf of Gökova to the north from the Hisarönü to the south. The peninsula corresponds almost exactly to the administrative district of Datça , part of Muğla Province . The town of Datça is located at its halfway point.
20-510: Previously, the ancient Greek names for the peninsula included the Dorian or Cnidos Peninsula or the Chersonisos Cnidia . The eastern half of the peninsula is bare, mountainous, and scarcely inhabited. In the middle of the peninsula, centered around the town of Datça, is the peninsula's largest area of good land, extending towards the southwest of its median isthmus dividing the two halves of
40-519: A location in Muğla Province , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mu%C4%9Fla Province Muğla Province ( Turkish : Muğla ili , pronounced [muːɫa iˈli] ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey , at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea . Its area is 12,654 km , and its population is 1,048,185 (2022). Its seat
60-580: Is Muğla , about 20 km (12 mi) inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum , Ölüdeniz , Marmaris and Fethiye , are on the coast in Muğla. At 1,100 km (680 mi), Muğla's coastline is the longest among the Provinces of Turkey and longer than many countries' coastlines, (even without taking any small islands into account). Important is the Datça Peninsula . As well as
80-568: Is a promontory in southwest Turkey , on the Aegean Sea , at the extreme end of the Datça Peninsula , north of the island of Rhodes . The modern town of Tekir is located there. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Triopium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray. 36°41′06″N 27°22′06″E / 36.6849°N 27.36846°E / 36.6849; 27.36846 This geographical article about
100-409: Is a small peninsula nearly an island, connected to the mainland by a low, 100m-wide spit of land; in antiquity, it was a man-made causeway. The island's ancient name was Triopion , after Triopas , the legendary founder of Knidos. The peninsula's eastern end is Bencik Cove, about 1.5 km in length and sometimes referred to as a fjord on the basis of local scales, and at the end of its indentation
120-460: Is the narrow isthmus where Datça Peninsula joins the Anatolian mainland is found. This point is a natural curiosity which offers a wide view of the two gulfs in the north and the south. The locality is called Balıkaşıran (literally, the place where fish may leap across ) and is also often used for the portage of small boats. The north coast is low, with vast beaches swept by the meltem winds in
140-716: The Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara , and returned control of the region to its former rulers, the Menteshe Beys, as he did for other Anatolian beyliks . Muğla was brought back under Ottoman control by Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, in 1451. One of the most important events in the area during the Ottoman period was the well-recorded campaign of Suleiman the Magnificent against Rhodes , which
160-464: The area was settled by Ancient Greek colonists. The Greeks inhabited this coast for a long time building prominent cities, such as Knidos (at the end of the Datça Peninsula ) and Bodrum ( Halicarnassos ), as well as many smaller towns along the coast, on the Bodrum Peninsula and inland, including in the district of Fethiye the cities of Telmessos , Xanthos , Patara and Tlos . Eventually
180-672: The coast or inland was quite arduous, and thus each locality remained an isolated culture of its own. Contact with the outside world was through one of the three difficult passes: northwest to Milas , north to the Menderes plain through Gökbel , or northeast to Tavas . Despite court decisions upheld by the ECHR , as of 2020 , Yatağan , Yeniköy and Kemerköy coal-fired power stations continue to pollute. The following are aspects about transportation in Muğla province: In ancient times in Anatolia ,
200-550: The coast was conquered by Persians who were in turn removed by Alexander the Great , bringing an end to the satrapy of Caria. In 1261, Menteshe Bey, founder of the Beylik (principality) that carried his name, with its capital in Milas and nearby Beçin , established his rule over the region of Muğla as well. The beys of Menteshe held the city until 1390 and this, the first Turkish state in
220-562: The discovery of two 2,500-year-old marble statues and an inscription during excavations at the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos in Euromus . According to Abuzer Kızıl, one of the statues was naked while other was wearing armor made of leather and a short skirt. Both of the statues were depicted with a lion in their hands. The following are notable residents of Muğla province: The Republican People's Party (CHP), Turkey's principal center-left party has
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#1733084608103240-460: The land mass. The western part is also mountainous, rising in places over 1,000 meters, but has towards its western end on the south side a considerable extent of well-watered land reaching to the coast at Palamutbükü locality and supporting a group of villages known collectively as Betçe ( the five villages ). At the tip of the peninsula in its extreme west is the locality called Tekir, marked by Cape Deveboynu , formerly Cape Crio/Kriyo. The cape
260-428: The peninsula under this name; today Reşadiye is the name of one of the quarters of the town. 36°42′26.52″N 27°33′07.10″E / 36.7073667°N 27.5519722°E / 36.7073667; 27.5519722 Cape Deveboynu, Dat%C3%A7a Deveboynu Cape ( Turkish Deveboynu Burnu ; Greek Krio ; Ancient Greek : Τριόπιον , romanized : Triopion ; Latin : Triopium and Triopia )
280-627: The region between the Menderes ( Meander ) and Dalaman ( Indus ) rivers in the south was called Caria . The inhabitants were Carians and Leleges . In his Iliad , Homer describes the Carians as natives of Anatolia , defending their country against Greeks in joint campaigns in collaboration with the Trojans . A major city of ancient Caria , Muğla is known to have been occupied by raiding parties of Egyptians , Assyrians and Scythians , until eventually
300-686: The region, achieved a high level of cultural development, its buildings remaining to this day. The province also became a significant naval power, trading with the Aegean Islands , Crete and as far as Venice and Egypt . Turkish settlement during the Menteshe period usually took place through migrations along the Kütahya - Tavas axis. In 1390, Muğla was taken over by the Ottoman Empire . However, just twelve years later, Tamerlane and his forces defeated
320-490: The sea, Muğla has two large lakes, Lake Bafa in the district of Milas and Lake Köyceğiz . The landscape consists of pot-shaped small plains surrounded by mountains, formed by depressions in the Neogene . These include the plain of the city of Muğla itself, Yeşilyurt , Ula , Gülağzı , Yerkesik , Akkaya , Çamköy [ tr ] and Yenice ). Until the recent building of highways, transport from these plains to either
340-399: The summer. The south coast is dramatically rocky and indented. Because of the many natural bays and harbors, the peninsula is often visited by private yachts , and is included in the boat tours usually departing from Bodrum or Marmaris and termed Blue Cruises . There are ruins of Greek cities both at Datça and Tekir, one or both of which may correspond to ancient Knidos ( q.v. ). It
360-594: Was called the Dorian Peninsula or simply Doris because it was settled by Dorian colonists from the Peloponnese , cf. Dorian Hexapolis . The name Datça comes from Stadia , an ancient town. Stadia developed into Tadya , Dadya , Dadça , and then Datça . Both the town and the peninsula of Datça were called Reşadiye for a brief period in the beginning of the 20th century, honoring the penultimate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reşad , and some maps may still refer to
380-479: Was considered to belong to a holy person by the local people. The shrine , used as a pilgrimage by locals until the 1970s, also has the potential to be the only pyramid grave in Turkey . Excavation team also discovered an inscription with these words: “I will be vigilant at the very top so as to ensure that no coward can come and destroy this grave". In July 2021, archaeologists led by Abuzer Kızıl have announced
400-517: Was launched from Marmaris . With this long history Muğla is rich in ancient ruins, with over 100 excavated sites including the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Letoon , near Fethiye . In 2018, archaeologists unearthed a 2,300-year-old rock sepulchre of an ancient Greek boxer called Diagoras of Rhodes on a hill in the Turgut village, Muğla province, Marmaris . This unusual pyramid tomb
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